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The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois is a work detailing the life and works of the twentieth century scholar and activist, W. E. B. Du Bois. It contains fifty chapters covering the multidimensional life and works of Du Bois. The contributing authors are experts on the topics about Du Bois which they authored. Because Du Bois was a prodigious twentieth century scholar and activist, these chapters delve into the numerous contributions he made in these domains. The Handbook is written in a clear accessible style enabling scholars, students, and the public to understand this complex and controversial historical figure. Du Bois is a fascinating figure because he lived for 95 years and often changed his ideas and activism as he grew over time. Du Bois's scholarship and activism addressed numerous historical developments and major social movements. The Handbook follows these tumultuous times where Du Bois struggled to make sense of the role that race, and racism, played in the development of the modern world. In so doing, this volume excavates the many lessons Du Bois's scholarship and activism hold for the contemporary world. The Handbook will serve as a guidepost for the emerging Du Boisian scholarship that has developed among scholars and students within and beyond the academy. It will assist in clarifying and enhancing the paradigm shifts Du Bois's work is currently generating in numerous intellectual disciplines and activist circles. The Oxford Handbook of W. E. B. Du Bois will stir needed debates for many years that are crucial for democracy to remain vital and flourishing.

Introduction 1. W. E. B. Du Bois: Incomparable Scholar and Activist Aldon D. Morris Social Theory, Change and Agency 2. Sociology Hesitant: A New Direction for Sociology Robert A. Wortham 3. Du Bois, Social Theory, and Agency Julian Go 4. Sociology Revised: W. E. B. Du Bois, Colonialism, and Anticolonial Social Theory Anaheed Al-Hardan 5. W. E. B. Du Bois: Anticolonialist Activist, and Theoretician George K. Danns and Paget Henry 6. The Du Boisian Perspective on Social Movements Michael Schwartz Sociologies 7. The Sociology of Race: Du Bois's Challenge to Biological Explanations of Racial Inequality Dorothy E. Roberts 8. Search for the "Benevolent Despot": W. E. B. Du Bois and The Philadelphia Negro Elijah Anderson 9. The Political Sociology of W. E. B. Du Bois Cedric de Leon and Michael Rodriguez-Munz 10. W.E.B. Du Bois and Rural Sociology Conner Bailey and Julie N. Zimmerman 11. "The Coming In of the Southern Freedman's Sons and Daughters": Du Bois and the Urban Question Kevin Loughran Social Science, Humanities, Public Intellectual 12. W. E. B. Du Bois and American Anthropology Lee D. Baker 13. W. E. B. Du Bois, Historian Thomas C. Holt 14. W. E. B. Du Bois: Journalism, A New Strategy Dan S. Green 15. The Novels of W. E. B. Du Bois Maria Farland 16. Culture as the Configuration and Condensation of Experience George Lipsitz 17. W. E. B. Du Bois as Scholar-Activist and Public Intellectual V. P. Franklin Women and Gender Studies 18. Gift, Vanguard, and Intellectual Leadership: Black Women and W. E. B. Du Bois's Sociology of Gender Cheryl Townsend Gilkes 19. Du Bois and Women Activists: Mentorship, Interracial Organizing, and Race Leadership Nneka D. Dennie Methodologies and Archival Resources 20. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Origins of Visual Sociology: The 1900 Paris Exposition and Beyond Britt Rusert 21. Du Bois, Social Psychology, and Survey Methods Rashawn Ray, Shaun Genter, and Jasmón Bailey 22. Du Bois, Demography, and Eugenics Tukufu Zuberi 23. Du Bois's Archives and Multiple Sites of Resources Whitney Battle-Baptiste Black Interiority and Whiteness 24. W. E. B. Du Bois's Theorization of Racialized Subjectivity Karida L. Brown 25. The Souls of Black Folk and the Sociological Analysis of Race in Our Times Alford A. Young, Jr. 26. Du Boisian Contributions to Phenomenological Variant of Ecological Systems Theory: Interrogating Thriving Efforts and Barbed-Wire Paths to Black Resiliency Jennifer Hall. Bronwyn Nichols Lodato and Margaret Beale Spencer 27. W. E. B. Du Bois's Influence on Whiteness Studies and Critical Race Theory Matthew W. Hughey 28. Du Bois on the Devastating Consequences of White Supremacy for White Folk Lisa McLeod Color Line, Empire, Marxism, and War 30. The Global Color Line and White Supremacy: W. E. B. Du Bois as a Grand Theorist of Race Katrina Quisumbing King 31. Disclosing the Problem of Empire in Du Bois's International Thought Adom Getachew and Jennifer Pitts 32. Du Bois and Marx's Influence: Black Reconstruction Andrew J. Douglas 33. The Line between W. E. B. Du Bois and Karl Marx: Racialized Modernity and Racial and Colonial Capitalism Jose Itzigsohn 34. The Making of Black Marxism: The Complementary Perspectives of W. E. B. Du Bois and Frantz Fanon Michael Burawoy 35. W. E. B. Du Bois and World War I Chad Williams 36. Peace Movement beyond the Color Line Kazuhisa Honda Talented Tenth, and Black Colleges and Universities 37. The Du Bois-Washington Debate: The Talented Tenth, the Tuskegee Machine, and the Clash of Black Titans Reiland Rabaka 38. A Message for Humanity: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Talented Tenth Idea James Anderson 39. W. E. B. Du Bois, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, and Black Sociology Earl Wright II 40. W. E. B. Du Bois and the Field and Function of Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Toward a Twenty-First-Century Vision Derrick P. Alridge Black Community, Religion, Crime and Wealth 41. The Social Organization of Black Communities Dan S. Green 42. How Does It Feel to Be the Problem? A Call for Du Boisian Criminology and Theorizing Racial Punishment Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve 43. Sociology of Religion and the Black Church Freeden Blume Oeur and Edward J. Blum 44. Du Bois's Critique of the Racist White Church Damon Mayrl 45. The American Assumption: W. E. B. Du Bois's Black Reconstruction and Myth-Busting the American Dream Marcus Anthony Hunter 46. Redress or Socialism? W. E. B. Du Bois's Silence on Black American Reparations William A. Darity, Jr. and James B. Stewart Internationalism, Pan-Africanism, and Anti-Colonialism 47. W. E. B. Du Bois and Pan-Africanism Zine Magubane 48. W. E. B. Du Bois's Involvement in African Affairs and Pan-Africanism Phillip Luke Sinitiere 49. W. E. B. Du Bois's International Lens on Modern US Philanthropy and His Fleeting Hopes for Reform Maribel Morey 50. Du Bois's Intellectual and Political Significance for China Li Dai 51. W. E. B. Du Bois: A Socialist and a Communist Edward Carson Du Bois, Last Message Last Message to the World W. E. B. Du Bois